Canadian Secret Santa 2017

[dyslexia]

2018 Exchange Thread:

https://community.sephora.com/t5/Oh-Canada/Canadian-Secret-Santa-2018/td-p/4233527

**Sign-ups are closed & participants have been matched!**

Halleloo, everybody!

It's time for another round of Canadian Secret Santa for 2017!

Rules for 2017:

1. Open to both Canada & US. If in US, you must be willing to ship to Canada. If in Canada, you can specify that you want to only ship within the country.
2. Eligibility: Must have either participated in either the 2015 or 2016 version of this exchange OR, for new participants, have a minimum 600 posts or  *NEW OPTION* 500 hearts.
3. Exchange will run via Elfster -- when you sign up please PM me with your email address so I can send your invite.
4. Deadlines:
   Sign-up cut off date: Thursday, November 2nd, midnight PST. Please also have your Elfster wishlist(s) up to date by then.  Deadline Passed.
   Matching day: Friday, November 3rd, so Rouge can take advantage of the 1st holiday sale weekend. Matching complete
   Ship-by date: Monday, December 11th (based on Canada Post shipping guidelines for 2017). Feel free to send sooner than this as well, though!
5. Spending minimum is CAD$50. We always say it's less (like $35 or so) but we all always spend more, so I'm bumping it up for this round since everyone goes over anyway. This is total-spend, be that a single item or a group of items.

Participants:

• dyslexia
• NotCrocker
• ayeshayh
• MaryK82
• shopaholic15
• Hellvetica
• Seymore3
• SpaceLlama

[Beadshopgirl]

@SpaceLlama It's always a minimum of $30 if it goes over a kilo. (to the US) The worst is when they also charge you volumetric weight on top of that!!!

[SpaceLlama]

@Beadshopgirl Yeah.. My box was 6.5lbs. Woops. Came out to 31$. Good thing I didn't use a bigger box. It was my first time shipping something so I didn't think it would be so bad haha.

[Beadshopgirl]

I hear you; it's painful! @SpaceLlama

[Seymore3]

I don't have quite enough posts for this year so I'll just watch,have fun everyone.

[dyslexia]

@Seymore3Good news!  Criteria have been reviewed (still making my way around the new BIC version of this community) and I've added back in the requirement from 2015/2016 of having min. 500 hearts. Which means:  you qualify! If you want in, just let me know here and PM me your email address for the elfster invite. 🙂

[Seymore3]

Yes,I would like to join,I will pm you.

[dyslexia]

Yay!!!  So glad it worked out!

[Llgc]

At the rate I post I should be in for Canadian Secret Santa 2019 😉 !!

I'm excited to see everyone's lovely gifts! Happy holidays all!

[dyslexia]

@LlgcGood news!  Criteria have been reviewed (still making my way around the new BIC version of this community) and I've added back in the requirement from 2015/2016 of having min. 500 hearts. Which means:  you qualify! If you want in, just let me know here and PM me your email address for the elfster invite. 🙂

[dyslexia]

@Llgc-- hey there!  If yr seeing this you have 3.5 hours (til midnight PST) to decide and let me know. Sorry for the short notice. ❤️

[Llgc]

@dyslexia that's awesome to hear! I'm going to sit out this year's (although I eagerly await pics of everyone's goodies 🙂 ), but I really appreciate you letting me know! 

[dyslexia]

@LlgcNo worries!  Just wanted to make sure you had a chance to jump in if it was gonna work out this round. 🙂

[dyslexia]

NEW Deadline for signups: Thursday, November 2nd, midnight PST -- names will be drawn on Friday, November 3rd so Rouge can take advantage of the holiday sale. **Please also have your wishlist(s) up to date by Thursday, Nov 2nd as well!** Your Santa may want to get an early head start on shopping, esp. if any of the items are Holiday LE that may sell out. Updating the main post to reflect this. (Also the shipping deadline will be December 11th, which is the recommendation for on-time delivery according to Canada Post for non-rush parcels.)

We're not quite to 7 yet but we have 6 already so I'm gonna go ahead and call it as officially happening -- will set up the Elfster tonight/tomorrow & will start sending out exchange invites. Need email addresses (plz PM me with yours) from:

@shopaholic15

@kbmatthews

Thanks! So excited to do this again for 2017!

[Mochapj]

Appreciate the tag @dyslexia but Nov/Dec are going to be busy for me, so I'm going to have to sit this one out.

Hope everyone has a great time!

[dyslexia]

No worries! ❤️

[MaryK82]

Hi! Thanks so much for the tag 😄 I'd love to participate again!

[dyslexia]

*happy dance* Awesome to have you in it again!

[shopaholic15]

Hi! Thanks for tagging me. I’d love to participate! Last year was so much fun 🙂

[dyslexia]

Fantastic! Got ya on the list -- woohoo!

[Snglbug]

600 comments?!? There’s no way I can make that happen so soon! I love the idea of this but I’m more of a creeper from the shadows than a commenter! ☹️

[dyslexia]

Aw, sorry, love. I feel ya. I missed out the 1st year for the same reason. But there will be more exchanges. ❤️ ❤️